- limivorous
- li·miv·o·rous
English syllables. 2014.
limivorous
Look at other dictionaries:
limivorous — [lī miv′ə rəs] adj. [< L limus, mud, slime (see LIME1) + VOROUS] eating mud or earth for the organic matter in it, as earthworms do … English World dictionary
limivorous — adjective Eating mud or soil for organic matter in it. An example of a limivorous creature would be the earthworm … Wiktionary
limivorous — adj. [L. limus, mud; vorare, to devour] (ANNELIDA) Mud eating to obtain the organic matter … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
limivorous — /luy miv euhr euhs/, adj. Ecol. of or pertaining to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it. [ < L lim(us) slime, mud + I + VOROUS, perh. on the model of LIMICOLOUS] * * * … Universalium
limivorous — eating mud Feeding and Eating … Phrontistery dictionary
limivorous — a. swallowing mud … Dictionary of difficult words
limivorous — (ˈ)lī|miv(ə)rəs adjective Etymology: probably from (assumed) New Latin limivorus, from Late Latin limi (from Latin limus mud) + Latin vorus vorous; akin to Latin linere to smear more at lime : swallowing mud for the organic matter contained in it … Useful english dictionary
limophagous — see limivorous … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
List of ships of the Culture setting — This is a list of spaceships found in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Most ships in this list are members of The Culture, the hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In this setting, each Culture ship, and some others, is also an… … Wikipedia
Feeding and Eating — Like many people, I enjoy eating perhaps too much so. This list of 113 words describes different things one could eat, although a human would have to be pretty desperate to eat lice or limestone. Then again, I ve eaten at McDonald s hundreds of… … Phrontistery dictionary
